I talk with grammy and Emmy-award winning songwriter Drew Ramsey about the challenges and rewards of co-writing songs, which occasionally become hit songs. In this, Drew has decades of experience — his countless collaborations include India.Arie, John Legend, Jonny Lang, and Marc Broussard  — and in his capacity as a songwriting professor at Belmont University in Nashville he’s championed and incubated the next generation of songwriting hopefuls.

We talk about Lightbulbs vs Batteries and the importance of discovering which one you are. We talk about the importance of bringing your weird to the songwriting room, and how it much easier to hone a wild idea into a communicable form than to punch up something that isn’t there, and finally we play one together in the studio, his song "Home", the hit he wrote with Marc Broussard.

Drew Ramsey: Vocals, Guitar
Korby Lenker: Guitar, Vocals

"Home" Originally released 2004 by Marc Broussard

Find Drew Ramsey:
website https://www.belmont.edu/profiles/drew...

The Morse Code Podcast is a weekly pod featuring longform conversations with talented indie creatives in music, film and writing. In October 2023 successfully a Kickstarter campaign and were able to raise $20K to help us launch.

Thematically, The MCP is based on a television pilot we created called MORSE CODE, currently on the film festival circuit. It's one several awards across more than a dozen festivals: Audience choice awards at the Nashville Film Festival and Berlin Short Film Festival, Best Pilot at the Ramsgate International Film Festival, Best Leading Actor for Korby Lenker at the NYC Television Festival, and more. Watch the 50 second trailer here:    • Morse Code OFFICIAL TRAILER June 2023  

Links:
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Find Korby
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Check out Korby's latest album MAN IN THE MAROON spoti.fi/3Hn1sZM
Named one of the "best records of 2021" by American Songwriter Magazine. Recorded during the pandemic when we were all Marooned on our own little islands

Korby's acclaimed book of short stories MEDIUM HERO is available at your local bookstore or at https://bit.ly/MediumHeroPaperback
If you want an autographed copy buy one direct https://www.korbylenker.com/merch/p/m...

Of MEDIUM HERO: "Distinctive, disarming, entertaining, and completely convincing. I was thoroughly captivated." - TIM O’BRIEN, National Book Award winning author of The Things They Carried
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patreon   / korbylenker  

Check out Korby's latest album MAN IN THE MAROON spoti.fi/3Hn1sZM
Named one of the "best records of 2021" by American Songwriter Magazine. Recorded during the pandemic when we were all Marooned on our own little islands

Korby's acclaimed book of short stories MEDIUM HERO is available at your local bookstore or at https://bit.ly/MediumHeroPaperback
If you want an autographed copy buy one direct https://www.korbylenker.com/merch/p/m...

Of MEDIUM HERO: "Distinctive, disarming, entertaining, and completely convincing. I was thoroughly captivated." - TIM O’BRIEN, National Book Award winning author of The Things They Carried